Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intruder cut the screen on a ground floor window with a broken beer bottle, the victim said. The loss was valued...
Right now, the players and owners think we're dying to flush more money down the drain, i.e., their bank accounts. They think we are heart-broken (which we probably are to some extent), that our lives are incomplete without baseball...
...lost in both the American psyche and wallet in the past decade. The owners have taken away the opportunity for the fans to participate in a record-setting year through their Nielsen boxes and their local sports merchandise shop. The cap worn by the man who might have broken Maris' record would have been worn later by legions of the young...
...Shelter (Houghton Mifflin; 279 pages; $21.95), Phillips continues to ladle on the prose: "In the splintering pour of the storm there is such a silence, like a church or a cell, a cloister, empty, and rain courses down the broken glass of the block-paned windows. Some of the jagged glass juts up like tongues, other panes are shattered intact, jeweled in their frames in webbed configurations." You know -- it was raining...
...pretty, who can deny that when 11-year-olds like Robert ("Yummy") Sandifer kill or when a 14-year-old drives nails into the heels of a younger boy -- a recent episode from Somerset, Pennsylvania -- there is good reason to be unnerved? A breeding ground of poverty and broken families and drugs and guns and violence, real or just pictured, has brought forth a violent generation. "We need to throw out our entire juvenile-justice system," says Gil Garcetti, the District Attorney of Los Angeles County, whose biggest headache, after the O.J. trial, is the city's youth gangs...